[icecast] bad buffering

Michael Smith
2003-09-03T02:21:57Z

> My "server" is an old Pentium 120 with 64MB RAM ,a HD of 8G and
an
> ethernet NIC.
> (I know it isn't much, but I'm tired of taking my CD collection to
> work.) I ripped the tracks in OGG format at 56kbps 22050 Hz Samplerate.
>
> my partial ices config:
>
>          <encode>
>             <nominal-bitrate>56000</nominal-bitrate>
>
>             <!-- samplerate>22050</samplerate -->
>             <channels>2</channels>
>          </encode>

You will not be able to do realtime encoding in managed bitrate modes on
hardware that slow.

You could try a quality-based mode, or (since your audio is already 56 kbps),
you could try NOT re-encoding it.

Mike